News outlets report on the Department of Defense’s announcement that it will deploy fewer troops to West Africa than originally planned. New York Times: Health Officials Reassess Strategy to Combat Ebola in Liberia “As the rate of new Ebola infections in Liberia has slowed, American and Liberian officials are debating…

Washington Post: Q&A with Rajiv ‘Raj’ Shah, USAID administrator dealing with Ebola in Liberia “The Ebola crisis has incited a massive global response, and it’s not easy to figure out who is running the whole operation. But one key figure is Rajiv ‘Raj’ Shah, administrator of the U.S. Agency for…

News outlets report on comments made by several U.N. officials about the Ebola epidemic in West Africa and the international response. Agence France-Presse: U.N. encourages travel to ‘vibrant’ Ebola-hit West Africa “The U.N.’s Ebola czar on Wednesday encouraged tourists to visit West Africa, saying Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea were ‘vibrant…

News outlets report on the Ebola situation in Liberia. Reuters: Liberia won’t extend Ebola state of emergency, says president “Liberia’s President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf said on Thursday she would not seek an extension to a state of emergency imposed in August over Ebola, which has hit the country harder than…

Huffington Post: What Would It Really Take to Halt Ebola and Prevent Future Epidemics? Cheryl Healton, dean of global public health at New York University and director of the NYU Global Institute of Public Health, and Christopher Dickey, clinical associate professor at the institute “…The Ebola crisis, and future epidemics,…

Associated Press: Ebola workers ask Congress for help “Health workers on the front line of the Ebola crisis say the need for urgent help isn’t letting up, as Congress begins considering President Barack Obama’s $6.2 billion emergency aid request to fight the disease. … On Wednesday, the Senate Appropriations Committee…

News outlets report that Mali has confirmed two more cases of Ebola in the capital just as the country was preparing to declare an end to its limited outbreak. Associated Press: Mali reports 2 new Ebola deaths in capital “Malian authorities on Wednesday reported two new deaths from Ebola that…